Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise that I had forgotten to comment on that, my writing is not as good as it used to be. It will be the responsibility of the new mayor to present the development plan to local authority members. People must visualise that the current chief executive has the executive function of presenting the plan to the councillors. The councillors adjudicate on it, go through the process of putting in amendments and deletions as they see fit and then it goes out to public consultation. It is now proposed that it will be the responsibility of the mayor to present that draft plan to the council, which will then adjudicate on it and work through a plan that reflects the ambition of the mayor and the national plan. We will have a strong, shared vision, but in the end the regional plans and the county development plans will have a strong link together. As already stated, the mayor will be head of the Project Ireland 2040 delivery board for Limerick. It will be the mayor's responsibility, working with the local authority, to bring that forward to the council.